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Today we travel through Beachport, a quaint old whaling station on a sheltered bay — home to a small fishing fleet.

Day Four — Today we travel through Beachport, a quaint old whaling station on a sheltered bay — home to a small fishing fleet.

Tours take place in the old whaling station on the Bluff Headlands as well as one of the largest collections of pictures, memorabilia, newspaper clippings and old footage of the whaling days.

The real damage was done between 1911 and 1933, when Japanese whalemen killed 1,449 after Japanese companies established several whaling stations on Korean Peninsula and on Chinese coast such as near the Daya bay and on Hainan Island.

Only a few were caught from two whaling stations on the coast of California from 1919 to 1926, and a single station in Washington (1911 — 21) accounted for the capture of another.

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At 10 pm on 19 October 2006, Farage took part in a three - hour live interview and phone - in with James Whale on the national radio station talkSPORT.

In 1951 we headed for Rum Jungle, where a uranium boom was on, but halfway there we stopped in Kaniva, another boomtown, with a whaling station and high - paying jobs.

This week we have stories on strange dimming at a not - so - distant star, sending sperm to the International Space Station, and what the fossil record tells us about how baleen whales got so ginormous with Online News Editor David Grimm.

«It's neat — we can predict exactly when humpback whales will be close to shore off Palmer Station just based on the tides,» Bernard said.

On the Antarctic island of South Georgia, in February, toward the middle of what passes for summer at the bottom of the world, I hurried through the ruined whaling station of Grytviken.

Post-mortem time for the sperm whale carcases averaged 28.4 hr on arrival for flensing at the Icelandic whaling station, and, although carcases were not sufficiently fresh for enzymatic studies, they were adequate for analyses of basic composition.

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This former whaling station houses a museum where you can see giant whale skeletons, harpoons and scrimshaw (etchings on whalebone).

Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point

Some of the other attractions are the Millenium Tower, a tour of the old whaling station, a game of golf on the 18 - hole golf course or shopping at one of the many chain stores.

These sources included: (1) records of gray whale catches off the Korean coast between 1948 and 1966), (2) an observation of four gray whales in the western Okhotsk Sea in 1967 and (3) a sighting of a mother - Remote research station used since 1995 to conduct research on gray whales feeding off Sakhalin Island seen in the background, while a gray whale feeds near shore in the foreground.

Initially they promoted the expansion of gray whale tourism in Magdalena Bay through ads on Mexican TV stations.

On the way to the Millennium Tower one can enjoy magnificent harbour and city views or a tour of the old whaling station, one of the last remaining symbols that remind us that whaling took place off the coast of Durban many years ago.

Or, climb aboard a simulated jet helicopter to zoom above icy landscapes on the Wild Arctic ride, which transports you to find a realistic Arctic research station with up - close looks at beluga whales, seals, and walruses.

Shore - based whaling stations near Victoria on Vancouver Island, using only row boats and hand - thrown harpoons, removed the entire population in less than a decade.

Her most recent project, The Eskimo and the Whale, has premiered in over 25 national and international film festivals and continues to be screened on PBS stations throughout the US.